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Walker had a three year span where he took 1,830 threes (he made 34.5% of them). Smith's career high in three point attempts: 154.

Smith's prowess as a defender mitigates a lot of the concerns about his effort level for me (with so much of defense being about effort). Additionally, I consider them very different types of athletes - Smith being about explosiveness (as evidenced by his block totals - over four times Walker's career rate), Walker more about finesse (though that sounds misleading out of context).

When I used to get into "ugliest players in the league" debates with my brother and our friends back in the '90's, Cassell was always one of our consensus picks.

Popeye Jones.

We mentioned him too. Pippen, Bird, Hornacek, and Reggie Miller were some of the others. If we'd had the debate in the last decade, I'd nominate Al Jefferson, Tayshaun Prince, Pau Gasol (who looks like a 7 foot hobo), and pretty much everyone on the 2002 Kings except for Webber.

I think Smith and Walker are completely different players - the comparison to be made is that you never know what you're getting from either one of them, Good Antoine Walter/Josh Smith or Bad Antoine Walker/Josh Smith. They could both play you into or out of games with equal aplomb.

It's also worth mentioning: Josh Smith is quite a bit better than Walker ever was. Even when he shoots you out of the game, he contributes in other ways.

Incidentally, if you're a WS/48 dude... Walker never posted an above average season on his career (career: .058, league avg = .100).

Smith's WS/48 numbers aren't great either: career .102, .137 over the last three years) - I think (there could be some fan bias here - my Smith fandom, as opposed to my Hawks fandom) that this underrates him, in part because of how WS assigns defensive credit. His Roland ratings have been solid the last six seasons:
'11-'12: +7.7
'10-'11: +5.2
'09-'10: +6.2
'08-'09: +2.6
'07-'08: +4.9
'06-'07: +4.6